Evaluation of AAL Platforms According to Architecture-Based Quality Attributes

Antonino, Pablo Oliveira; Schneider, Daniel; Hofmann, Cristian; Nakagawa, Elisa Yumi

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-25167-2_36

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“…Europe's largest AAL project UniversAAL [18,19] inherits features from similar research projects, facilitating the development of an open source platform retaining interoperability as its overall goal. Open architectures have been proposed [20,21], some experimental [22,23], some evaluating remote care, and a modular platform [24] for event recognition. The reuse of components within projects is difficult, as many platforms are too complex for recycling [25].…”

Section: Platformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unlike SOPRANO, few AAL systems are commercially viable due to their inadequate underlying architecture, and consequently the projects ALADIN [41], OLDES [42], ENABLE [43], and SHARE-IT [44] were developed to comply with commercial criteria. Platforms frequently utilised with AAL systems include PERSONA [23], and OpenAAL [12] (an open source initiative producing an agile middleware). HEREiAM [45] and GeTVivid [46] operate via a TV set, whereas PeerAssist [47] concentrates on providing an agile peer-to-peer (P2P) platform.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Review and Classification of Assisted Living Systems

2018

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Europe's social agenda for the "active elderly" is based upon a series of programs that provide a flexible infrastructure for their lives so that they are motivated, engaged in lifelong learning, and contributing to society. Economically speaking, Europe must engage in active aging research in order to avoid unsustainable health costs, and ambient assisted living (AAL) systems provide a platform for the elderly to remain living independently. This paper reviews research conducted within the area of AAL, and offers a taxonomy within which such systems may be classified. This classification distinguishes itself from others in that it categorises AAL systems in a top-down fashion, with the most important categories placed immediately to the left. In this paper, each section is explored further, and AAL systems are the focus. Entire AAL systems still cannot be fully evaluated, but their constituent technical parts can be assessed. The activities of daily living (ADLs) component was given further priority due to its potential for system evaluation, based on its ability to recognise ADLs with reasonable accuracy.Information 2018, 9, 182 2 of 24 ensure that future system features include the minimum requirements necessary for AAL research and commercial usage, thus ensuring that the elderly and their families have systems capable of meeting their current and future ADL needs. Previous reviews have taken different approaches, yet all failed to provide a framework within which all AAL systems could be classified according to their primary function [5,6]. Some applied specific guidelines to predominantly single-use systems, compared platform performance, or personalised healthcare systems. The evolution of AAL technology [7] has taken us through three generations, from wearable devices that respond to an emergency, to automatic response home sensors, to a third generation combining less-intrusive monitoring with preventive functionalities. Another review approach of surveying ambient environment services [8] under event-, context-, or device-aware services was categorised in terms of a service-oriented, user-centered, and event-aware monitoring service. This review technique compared various ambient services of response time, success rate, low/high-level failures, power consumption, and service reliability/adaption, yet offered no classification. A comprehensive literature review [9] on platforms and systems [10] provided no taxonomy for researchers, and excluded ambient intelligence (AmI) research that is pivotal within robotics and wearable computing. A recent review paper [11] described AAL as the culmination of the following five technologies: sensors, context awareness, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, announcing the importance of device interoperability, yet offering no template for achieving this goal. AALIANCE [12] proffered a roadmap for AAL system standardisation and a possible future evolutionary structure for systems, yet this aspirational template lacks the necessary structure to accommodate curr...

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Section: Platformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Platformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review and Classification of Assisted Living Systems

2018

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“…As previously stated, what is occurring is the lack of viable business models that truly implement the needed interoperability [4][5][6]. In AAL projects interoperability comes in many forms, going from the sensor systems to the certification procedure.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A common issue with AAL projects, mainly due to the rapid development that is demanded, is that they are singular, meaning that they work by themselves and cannot be integrated with other systems [4][5][6]. Although it seems harmless, this issue quite serious.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An AAL Collaborative System: The AAL4ALL and a Mobile Assistant Case Study

Costa

Nováis

Simões

2014

Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications

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Abstract. The areas of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and Intelligent Systems (IS) are in full development, but there are still some issues to be resolved. One issue is the myriad of user oriented solutions that are rarely built to interact or integrate with other systems available in the market. In this paper we present the AAL4ALL project and the UserAccess implementation, showing a novel approach towards virtual organizations, interoperability and certification. The aim of this project is to provide a collaborative network of services and devices that connect every user and product from other developers, building a heterogeneous ecosystem. Thus establishing an environment for collaborative care systems, which may be available to the users in from of safety services, comfort services and healthcare services.

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“…Antonio et al [4] have evaluated the leading AAL platforms with respect to a set of pre-selected quality characteristics. Their work differs from ours in three manners: 1) the rationale for selection of the quality characteristics is not presented and we do not know to what degree it has been systematic; 2) the quality characteristics selected have been treated as equally important; and 3) they have evaluated fulfillment of the selected quality characteristics in the context of AAL platforms, not AAL systems and services in general.…”

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Elicitation of Quality Characteristics for AAL Systems and Services

Omerovic

Kofod-Petersen

Solhaug

et al. 2013

Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications

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Abstract. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a promising and fast growing area of technologies and services to assist people with special needs (e.g. elderly or disabled) in managing more independently their everyday life. AAL is founded on increasing needs for welfare technologies, as well as on significant effort from many scientific disciplines, the society, and the industry. The research has so far been primarily concentrated on elicitation of the functional aspects and on providing the technical solutions for the AAL systems and services. The problem of eliciting non-functional requirements and quality characteristics that are specific and critical for AAL, however, has been addressed to a much lesser extent. Failing to ensure the necessary system and service quality regarding critical characteristics may represent a significant obstacle to the wider acceptance of AAL in the society. There is hence a need to increase awareness of quality of AAL systems and services by providing the necessary supplement to the established state of the art. This paper reports on the process and the results from elicitation of AAL specific quality characteristics. The approach is based on established reference architectures and roadmapping material, as well as the ISO/IEC 9126 software product quality standard. The paper demonstrates how to do the elicitation in practice, and proposes the set of quality characteristics that are most important in the AAL context.

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Evaluation of AAL Platforms According to Architecture-Based Quality Attributes

Cited by 21 publications

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A Review and Classification of Assisted Living Systems

A Review and Classification of Assisted Living Systems

An AAL Collaborative System: The AAL4ALL and a Mobile Assistant Case Study

Elicitation of Quality Characteristics for AAL Systems and Services

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